A’ja Wilson entered the 2026 season coming off her third WNBA championship and fourth WNBA MVP campaign. The Las Vegas Aces superstar forward has simply picked right up where she left off, averaging league-high 25.6 points per game this season, on pace for the second most of her W career, plus a W-best 2.2 blocks per contest.
It’s only fitting that Wilson leads 2026 WNBA All-Star voting after the first fan returns, which the league announced on Wednesday. Already a seven-time All-Star, she’s piled up 308,249 votes. Second-year Dallas Wings standout guard Paige Bueckers isn’t far behind with 298,027 votes. Last season, Bueckers followed up a national championship at UConn by making her first WNBA All-Star team and then earning WNBA Rookie of the Year honors.
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Wilson and Bueckers are followed in the fan voting by three-time All-Star Indiana Fever center Aliyah Boston (282,186 votes) and seven-time All-Star New York Liberty forward Breanna Stewart (255,879), who doubles as a two-time WNBA MVP. Two-time All-Star Fever guard Caitlin Clark (253,602) rounds out the top five.
Last year, Clark — at the time not too far removed from her 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year season — was the leading vote-getter through the first fan returns.
Here are the top-40 leaders in the first fan returns in this year’s WNBA All-Star voting:
This story is being updated.
